Stock-car



(N0 Model.)

J. K. WEBER.

STOCK GAR.

Patented Aug. 21, 1883.

/WW//ar UNITED STATES OFFICE..

JOHN K. VEBER, OF TITUSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,441, dated August21, 1883.

Application filed May 4, 1883.

To all-whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN K. WEBER, a citizen of the United States,residing at rIitusville, in the county of Crawford and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stock-Cars,of which the following is a specification.

My invention `relates to cars which are divided by partition-gates intoseparate stalls, a stall for each animal, my object being to soconstruct the gates that they shall be cheap, simple in operation, entirely separate the stalls, and when not in use and not needed can beeasily removed, leaving the car clear for otherfreight; also, to soconstruct the feeding and watering arrangements that the work of feedingand watering can bewcll and expeditiously performed.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure l is a plan view of the car, with the gates closed separating thestalls; Fig. 2, a plan view, with the gates folded back, and Fig. 3, asectional' elevation aerossthe ear.

Similar parts in the several views are indicated by the same letters.

A represents thc exterior walls of the car; B, the door or entrance; O,one of the parting gates D, a pivoted standard, to which the gate O isfirmly secured 5 E, a longitudinal sill on the floor of the car, intowhich the standard is pivoted on its lower end, and F, alongitudinalplate secured to or near the rooftimbers directly over the sill E, andinto which a pintle on the upper end of the standard D plays.

The standards D are placed near one si de of thecar, but distant from itfar enough toadmit between them and the side of the car the feed andwater trough G. The gate O has the end O projecting beyond the standardD, so that when the gate is closed it shall also separate the stallsover the feed-trough. The pintle on the upper end of the standard D ismade long, so that the standard may be lifted, freeing thc lower pivotfrom the sill E, and the gate removed, and either placed at one lend ofthe car or removed `from it entirely. To prevent the gate from beinglifted and thrown-out of place when the animals are in the ear, Iprovide 'a button, P, upon the top of the plate F, which turns over`thepintle on the standard D, securely holding it down.

(No model.)

To securely fasten the gate C when closed, I attach to the side of thecar the string-pieces H H, so placed that the end of the gate shall justpass between them, and through holes in these plates I pass the bolts orpins I I, one on each side of the gate. By having additional holes inthe string-pieces, these pins may be moved backward and forward, so asto adjust thewidth of the stall, as maybe required. The gates near theentranceV end are made in two parts and hinged together, as shown at KK, to allow them to fold back against the side and end of the car. Vhenclosed, they are'securcd by the revolving bar L dropping into sockets oneach part of the gate. The end of the gate which comes opposite' theentrance-door B is heldby long hooks S S from the standards on each sideof the door.

The feeding and watering arrangement I construct as follows: The troughG has under each partition the parting-strip M, dividing it intoseparate feed-boxes for each stall. v This strip is so placed in the`trough as 'to leave an open space, N, at the bottom of the trough,through which the water can flow from one to the other andthe wholelength ofthe trough. At each en d of the car I provide the pipe O,extending from a point near the center of the car and above thefeed-trough to the trough. Then water is introdueed into thc pipe at O,it fiows through the pipe, and under the parting-strips M the wholelength of the trough. After watering, the water is let out of the troughand food supplied through thc lifting trap-doors R on the side of thecar.

I claim as my inveution- A stock-car, the internal structure consistingof the gates O, constructed as described, and attached to the pivotedstandard D, sill E, and plate' F, stringers H H, and fasteningpins I I,all working in combination, and with the feed and water trough G,water-pipe O, and lifting feed-doors R, all constructed substantially asdescribed, and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of twowitnesses, this lst day of May, A. D. 1883.

JOHN K. 'WEBER Vitnesses J. NV. WEEBER, XV. G. Amir..

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